Tapwave founder on the future of the Zodiac !

Missed this during the hailstorm of gadget news that is the Consumer Electronics Show, but a ton of people wrote in to tip us off to this interview in PC Mag with Byron Connell, the founder of Tapwave, who talks about the (somewhat hazy) future of their Palm-powered Zodiac handheld and how lately they’ve been shifting the emphasis of the Zodiac away from gaming and more towards multimedia, with updated music playback software and a deal to add integration with Virgin’s online music store, and better support for video playback courtesy of the latest version of Kinoma. The bad news: the next Zodiac is at least a year or two away from release, but assuming Tapwave doesn’t bite the dust in the meantime, it should have integrated WiFi, a built-in mini hard drive, and a faster processor and graphics chip. But then again, by 2007, what handheld won’t have all those?